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Gunners Bounce OTS
California Bear Quintet Edges Treasure Island Pir,t,es From Island Tourney;

Robbins 'Paces T .I.,· rebounded from the boards. RMS Hoopsters Forfeit
Andy Wolfe, California's sharp- Armed Guard cleared its path
w.hitmer Frets Over Loss shooting forwa rd who was recent- of another Intra-Mural obstruc-
iy discharged, paced the Bear at-
tion Tuesday when it nicked the
California's Golden Bears came tack with 25 points. Treasure Is- OTS school boys, 34-32.
out of hibernation Saturday night, land's beanstalk center, Robbins,
just long enough to jerk a we!- was good for 15 digits while "Rab- The Gunners might have com-
come mat from under Treasure bit". Al Cummins pushed 12 piled the highest score but OTS
Island's basketball "tootsies" and through the hoop. produced the evening's top scorer,
bury them beneath a ciust 'of bas- Cal surged to an early 4-0 lead Jim Ryan. Ryan hit the bucket
for 16 points.
kets, 57-46. w~h i c h immediately closed on
The College A venue hoopsters, Cummins' two quick baskets. Bob Armed Guard had won its way
beaten in their last start by the Williams, Pirate guard, sunk one into the semi-final round when
Naval Air Station, Alameda, re- from 25 feet out and then Rob- RMS failed to appear.
turned to their home floor and bins breezed under tht> bucket to
gained a somewhat meager .con- make it 8-4 for Treasure Island.
solation by triumphing over an- Three quick baskets by Wolfe
other Navy team. nullified _T. I.'s early lead and Armed 'Guard Thumps
White hats, sprinkled among from this point the Bears were
a half filled stadium of tweed out- never headed. Mare Island - Face
fits and loud skirts, were disap- By half time Cal was out in T .I. Thurs. Night
pointing in numbers but spirited front by a 37-26 margin, 18 of
when it came to rooting. The which came off the fingers of Armed G u a r d won its third
bluejacket loss never dampened Andy Wolfe. The points were still straight league basketball game
their hopes. evenly distributed after 10 min-
Thursday night when they over-
T.I.'s difficulty lay in its small utes of the third p er i o d had
quintet. California gained com- elapsed.
plete mastery over both back- Cummins and Robbins whittled
boards as a result of its towering at the Bear lead with successive
center, Smith, who reached 6' 7" baskets but Hoge bloom, Smith
into the clouds. The Pirates were and Wray went one better for
good for about one shot and then California. The Bears decided to
either Smith or Wolfe, both of freeze the ball and eliminated any
Cal, would snatch the ball as it further scoring hope of T.I.
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Dan Jenkins Becomes 17 5 Lb. Golden Gloves
Lyle Dodd ( 11), T . I. guard, goes high to get ball from Cal's Wray.
The Bears won, 57-46.
King; T.1.'s Copeland Turner Can't Make Win
Swim Team to Prepare DEADEYE WAVES Ambitious glove tossers from valho with an educated left hand,
just about every local base, camp but failed to impress the judges
For 12ND Tourney, IN SLASHING WIN and town, lived up to all advance enough to get the verdict. · Car-
predictions by producing anotlter valho fought in flurri.es and oc-
Try for Second Win OVER M. I. HOSPITAL successful Golden Glove boxing casionally caught the crafty Tur-
tournament in the bay area. ner with a few hard blows.
Preparations are under way for In a rip roaring spectacle of Armed Guard was well repre-
Treasure Island furnished its
th~ 12th Naval District Swim ball play the T. I. Waves thor- share of champions and runners- sented in the city-wide shindig
Trophy to be held at San Bruno oughly trounced the Mare Island up in placing one man on the top and put at least 10 men past the
in the early part of January. Hospital in a gruelling basketball quarter-finals.
Sparking the T.I. team are Bill game Wednesdp.y, 46 to 29. This bracket and two others in the Archie Rasley, an early Armed
Keaney and Clark Johnson, 50. was T. I.'s second league game, finals circle.
and 100 meter crawl; Chuck Con- the first of which they lost to the Muscular, hard-hitting Dan Gua_rd casualty, was decisioned
iglio, 200 and 400 meter crawl; Sutter St. sextet 35-12. Jenkins waltzed off with the 175 by Dick Young in the opening
round. Robert Pease failed to see
and Oliver Kugin, 50 meter breast A terrific rivalry exists between lb. novice crown by decisioning a second round of action. Art Burris (10) Goes High
.stroke. the T. I. floor maids and the his Armed Guard mate, Glen Johnny McBeth and "Dutch"
Peck. Peck made a rousing battle whelmed the Mare Island Navy,
Several familiar names will be Sutter St. backboard squad. Al- Elite both scored early victories,
of it for two rounds but faded 54-43.
missing from this year's roster of though they are not scheduled for McBeth taking the measure of
swimmers, among them Coach Al another league game, arrange- badly in the third stanza. Peck Louis Gonzales and Elite upset- Playing at the T. I. Gym, the
Rebstock, speedy breast stroke ments are being made to enable left the ring with cuts above both Gunners dominated play from the
ting Joe Burks via the T.K.O.
swimmer, and Frank McQuigan, the T. I. girls to have their re~ eyes. opening whistle. At one time Mare
route.
national champion springboard venge. Copeland Turner, fighting under Don Scriminger, rugged mid- Island was one point from tak-
diver. McQuigan may be dis- Preceding their first league the colors of Treasure Island, dleweight, fared well in the first ing the lead.
charged prior to the swim meet. game, the Island ladies tangled took ev.ery round from his op- two rounds of the tourney but Art Burris, lanky Armed Guarcl
Treas.ure Island is J,n need of with the Fort Mason Wacs in a ponent but failed to get the ref- was unable to continue in the center, was good for 14 points and
because of two is expected to be the big gun in
swimmers in the following classes: knock down, drag out affair in eree and judge's decision. Turner semi - .finals
· 50 meter breast stroke and back which the bluejac~ets came out continually peppered Harry Car- smashed ribs. He was unbeaten. Thursday night's local "natural"
stroke; 50, 100, 200, and 400 triumphant with a score of 8
against T.I.
meter crawls; relay, and one to to the GI's 5. Since that time the
three meter board divers. Last girls have found their eye and Jen/tins Captures fiolden filove Crown
year, the Islanders went to a have become quite proficient in
T ., I. 'B's' Snap Losing
smashing victory over 16 rival sinking the casaba in the old
stations in the 12th ND Swim- hoopla.
ming Championships, totaling 47 In their practice second game Streak with Bruno Win
points to their nearest rival's 26. with Camp Parks the dribbling
With the addition of several damsels were once more victorious T. I. unheralded "B" team
fast breast-strokers Chuck Con- in a neck and neck race until copped its first basketball win
iglio has good hopes for a sec- the final whistle. The final score of the season Tuesday when they
ond District championship. I was T. I. 32, Camp Parks 29. ::::nowed an outclassed San Bruno
five under, 59-16.
· - In the 12th Naval District
Strange as it may seem a pair
P ·,rates Tr·1p San Bru'no league competition the Island of sharp-shooting guards waltzed
Waves have a record of one win
off with the scoring honors. Rob-
Hoopsters 66-33,· Play and one loss. Sharpshooter of the
team in the Mare Island game was itaille and Cross, men in ques-
Fleet City Tuesday Gloria Dethman who rang up 18 tion, were responsible for 23 of
points. The usual starting lineup the Pirate points.
Despite a slight delay in game
is Dethman, Hall and McBride, a
time Treasure Island wasted little
winning combination at forwards,
playing effort in running rough-
and Henry, Scrable and Douseman
shod over San Bruno Tuesday Richter Paces Hospital
at the guard positions.
night, 66-33 at T. I.
The next league game takes
· The Buccaneers used the entire Win Over Fleet City;
bench in running up a score that place December 19 at the Mare
doubled that of their opponents. Island-Navy Yard. League Tilt
Frank Montgomery and · Al \..._,
Cummins, a couple of pony-sized Girl: "Does your boy frienc' T. L's Hospital five scored a
forwards, paced the T. I.. league have ambitions?" surprising hoop victory over Shoe-
triumph with 14 and 12 point Gal: "Yes, ever since he's bee:1 maker's quinine quintet Wednes-
contributions. Frericks, S an knee-high." I day when they over-ran the· Fleet
Bruno rambler, rang the bell 13 * * * City defern~es 55-34.
times. Clothes make the man-with a TWO-FISTED DAN JENKINS, Armed Guard clouter, annexed the Richter, center for the Doc's,
175 pound title by decisioning teammate Glen Peck. Jenkins (left)
Fleet City invades Treasure woman they reveal just how she'- led the scoring parade with 25
reaches out with a long left while Peck paries the bl,ow and counters
Island Tuesday night. made. with a left hook that shook Mr. Jenkins considerably. tallies.